White Aborigines

Download or read book White Aborigines written by Ian McLean and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1998-04-06 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This highly original book shows that Australian art, and the writing of its history, has since settlement been in a dialog (although often submerged) with Aboriginal art and culture; and that this dialog is inextricably interwoven with the struggle to find an identity in the antipodes. McLean argues that the colonizing culture invested far more in indigenous aspects of the country and its inhabitants than it has been willing to admit. He considers artists and their work within their cultural context, and in light of contemporary theory.